
Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area
Business-minded and big-picture visionary offering multifaceted technical and interpersonal skills coupled with proven ability in optimizing efficiencies and articulating a well-defined path to success.
* Influential communicator with proven sales and marketing skills.
* Demonstrated success in enhancing data center performance, spearheading global enterprise projects, and championing productive change.
* Accomplished in transforming an entire IT infrastructure, from a disorganized function to a world-class data center.
* Developing marketing messaging and working with industry analyst.
* Presentations
* Analyst calls
* Product marketing/ messaging
* Opportunity Identification
* Proof of Concept/Prototype Development
* Customer Training
* Courseware Developer
* Post-Sales Professional Services
* Consulting
* Virtualization
* Networking Storage
* Windows/Linux
* Logistics
* Product Roadmap
* Customer Relationship
* Product Positioning
* B2B Business Relationships
* Brand Visibility
* OEM Alliance
* Project Management
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Own and operate the Virtual Enthusiasm Blog at http://blog.cretec-web.com which has gained a large following in less than 3 months. Articles are being syndicated out to several technology sites.
Post articles related to various virtualization technologies. Design best practice documents and track patching and bugs.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Provide technical coordination in our OEM relationship, working with Engineers, Sales, Marketing and executives to drive the relationship and make sure everyone had what they needed to increase business.
Develop product messaging and delivering message to analyst, sales field, and potential customers through webinars. Use Web 2.0 marketing methodologies to get message out to the public.
Provide technical insight to Marketing to help create proper messaging for our B2B and customer relationships.
Provide feedback on technical request and requirements for our products to Engineering.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — December 2008 (7 months)
Work as a subject matter expert in virtualization in general, both I/O and hypervisor. Considered a subject matter expert on VMware for the entire for Egenera. Work with Account Executives and on site with potential clients to help them understand how we could help bring Egenera and other virtualization platforms into their environment. Called on to help with Proof of Concept implementations to make that the client gets a great experience. Responsible for helping clients build solid and dynamic architectures for their environment.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; dell; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Technical lead on VMware in an enterprise environment. This includes planning, forecasting, tracking, and score-carding. Manage one of the largest VMware farms in the world. Work with all business segments to forecast future virtualization and migration from physical servers.. Responsible for engineering solutions based on corporate standards as well as providing 2nd/3rd level support. Train level 1 and 2 support teams globally. Provide on call 3rd level support for IIS, Weblogic, Citrix, in addition to VMware. Report status and forecast to executives as well as recommendations.
Also attend external customer briefings for presenting what we do at Dell and how we can help the customer utilizing Dell services.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
July 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 6 months)
Work as part of a team to support Windows based servers, AD, Exchange, DNS, Backups, along with other general IT duties. Primary functions include Citrix, VMWare ESX, SAN /Storage solutions, and Fiber switches. Also provide 2nd and 3rd level support to internal customers. Basic project management for small-mid size IT related projects.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — June 2003 (2 years 10 months)
Worked with varying number of small business to fill their IT needs. This included setting up networks, firewalls, servers, web sites, email, and phone systems. Also did onsite training for Microsoft Windows, Office, and General IT work.
Developed custom PHP/MySQL based web applications includin portals, inventory, and project management applications.
At the peak I had over 20 clients where I was performing maintenance and new installs.
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 5 months)
Work as a team member to support the Windows and Linux server environment. My main priorities were; IIS, Citrix and VPN, Disaster Recovery to Co-Location, and BEA Weblogic.
Also provided 2nd and 3rd level support in a 7x24x365 environment.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Dell; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1995 — September 2000 (4 years 10 months)
Primary duties are Dell was to develop the testing methodolgy for the Optiplex and PowerEdge line in the Field Service area. This included building testing scripts and logging as well as procedures for quality assurance. Worked with external vendors to verify their work and testing practices. Work as a project lead on several projects for test environment on new models. Worked as a internal instructor for new applications and testing practices. Was a team lead the last two years.